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The park will confiscate hundreds of dunums of privately owned Palestinian land. One activist said doing so is "driving people crazy."
Jerusalem city council member Meir Margalit called the park project "a farce." Designated land is largely "rocks and thorns," he said.
Nothing justifies park development. At issue is stealing Palestinian land, demolishing their property, dispossessing them, and replacing them with Jews.
Palestinian rights are denied. They're brutalized for resisting. On January 1, Haaretz headlined "East Jerusalem villagers: Israel Police subjecting us to collective punishment," saying:
In recent weeks, security forces targeted Issawiya residents ruthlessly. Dozens of arrests and injuries followed.
Things escalated out-of-control. It happened after Samer Issawi's arrest. He's a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist. He was wrongly imprisoned for 10 years. Political activism got him incarcerated.
He was released in Israel's October 2011 Gilat Shalit prisoner exchange. Months later he was rearrested. Israeli deals aren't worth the paper they're written on. Terms are violated with impunity. Samer's hunger striking in protest.
Issawiya residents support him. They staged supportive solidarity marches. Security forces targeted them viciously. Clashes continued for days. Children were brutalized like adults.
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